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NATURE
Volume 582, Issue 7812, Pages 432-+Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2249-1
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91740201, 91940306, 31522015, 81921003, 31771438, 31970610]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2017YFA0504400, 2016YFC0900400]
- Strategic Priority Program of CAS [XDB19000000]
- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation [5182024]
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Highly structured RNA molecules usually interact with each other, and associate with various RNA-binding proteins, to regulate critical biological processes. However, RNA structures and interactions in intact cells remain largely unknown. Here, by coupling proximity ligation mediated by RNA-binding proteins with deep sequencing, we report an RNA in situ conformation sequencing (RIC-seq) technology for the global profiling of intra- and intermolecular RNA-RNA interactions. This technique not only recapitulates known RNA secondary structures and tertiary interactions, but also facilitates the generation of three-dimensional (3D) interaction maps of RNA in human cells. Using these maps, we identify noncoding RNA targets globally, and discern RNA topological domains and trans-interacting hubs. We reveal that the functional connectivity of enhancers and promoters can be assigned using their pairwise-interacting RNAs. Furthermore, we show that CCAT1-5L-a super-enhancer hub RNA-interacts with the RNA-binding protein hnRNPK, as well as RNA derived from the MYC promoter and enhancer, to boost MYC transcription by modulating chromatin looping. Our study demonstrates the power and applicability of RIC-seq in discovering the 3D structures, interactions and regulatory roles of RNA.
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